Initially I created a collection Users in my Firestore Cloud database with a subcollection Wishlist.
To add to the wishlist, I hardcoded the following to test it works:
let db = Firestore.firestore()
db.collection("users/JldiJEK5i84DZWhlTFg6/wishlist").addDocument(data: ["plant" : plants[0], "image" : plants[1]])
}
Once button is tapped, the plant is sent to that particular User's wishlist and it works -- I can see this being added to the database.
How do I...
I cannot figure out in the documentation how not to hardcode the document id. I would like it to just add the plant for every user signed in?
Get the current user:
let user = Auth.auth.currentUser
if let user = user {
_ = user.id
}
Then:
let db = Firestore.firestore()
db.collection("users/\(user?.uid ?? "error")").addDocument(data: ["plant" : plants[0], "image" : plants[1]])
This works for me when dealing with people/customers, I just have an error document in Firestore, but your user is more than likely never going to be nil if they log in or create an account.
Edit:
Just to be safe, this is probably better and will avoid unnecessary writes to Firestore when there's an error (saving money)
guard let currentUser = Auth.auth().currentUser {
print("handle the error")
return
}
let uid = currentUser.uid
...
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Currently my Firebase database is using the following structure
Users
User 1 Data
User 2 Data...
However I have created a new collection inside of the "users" collection called "products" which will store product details that users have uploaded on the application.
How can I ensure that once a user uploads a new product, it is only uploaded into their 'User X data' dataset, inside the respective "products" collection. The code I currently have only uploads the data into the "users" collection, with no reference of the users who added the product as required. I have shown the structure of my Firebase database below for reference.
Here is my code:
let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
db.collection("users").getDocuments { (snapshot, error) in
if let error = error {
print(error)
return
} else {
for document in snapshot!.documents {
let data = document.data()
let userId = data["uid"] as! String
if userId == user?.uid {
db.collection("users").document("products").setData(["productNameField":firstName, "productURLField":lastName,"productPriceField":ebayName, "productDescriptionField":etsyName, "productTimeRemainingField":email])
}
}
}
}
How would I go about updating my code to achieve this?
I think you're looking for
let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
db.collection("users").getDocuments { (snapshot, error) in
if let error = error {
print(error)
return
} else {
for document in snapshot!.documents {
let data = document.data()
let userId = data["uid"] as! String
if userId == user?.uid {
document.reference.collection("products").addDocument(["productNameField":firstName, "productURLField":lastName,"productPriceField":ebayName, "productDescriptionField":etsyName, "productTimeRemainingField":email])
}
}
}
}
So here document is the DocumentSnapshot that you're looping over, so document.reference gives you the reference to that specific document, and document.reference.collection("products") then points to the `products subcollection for that specific document.
You're wastefully looping over the entire list of users to FIND the user document needed. Simplify, simplify - use the user.uid as the Id of the user document!! (i.e. when you create the user document, save it as
db.collection("users").doc(user.uid).set({whatever})
...then it's trivial to access as...
let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
db
.collection("users")
.doc(user.uid)
.collection("products")
.setData([
"productNameField":firstName,
"productURLField":lastName,
"productPriceField":ebayName,
"productDescriptionField":etsyName,
"productTimeRemainingField":email
]);
If there is another reason to keep the docID and the uid separate (not shown here), then use a query to get the SPECIFIC document with the uid, rather than downloading ALL of them
let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
db
.collection("users")
.where(field: "uid", opStr:"==", value: user.uid)
.getDocuments( { (snapshot, error) in
if let error = error {
print(error)
return
} else { //the query should only return the one document, but queries always return an array
snapshot
.documents[0]
.ref()
.document("products")
.setData([
"productNameField":firstName,
"productURLField":lastName,
"productPriceField":ebayName,
"productDescriptionField":etsyName,
"productTimeRemainingField":email
])
}
}
...etc...
I don't generally use Swift, so the where clause may require different formatting, but the idea is GET ONLY THE DOCUMENT YOU NEED. Your security rules should only be allowing this, anyway.
Is there a way to grab the data from owner ID I'm not able to access the collection oath because the documentID is auto-generated and not a specific value I have control of
A possible option would be to query your documents and retrieve a specifc OwnerID like this.
If you want to fetch all OwnerIDs from all of your documents just remove the 'whereField'.
Also check out the Firebase documentation for queries.
let docRef = db.collection("YOURCOLLECTIONNAME")
let query = docRef.whereField("OwnerID", isEqualTo:"VAL")
query.getDocuments{ (querySnapshot, error) in
if let error = error {
print("\(error.localizedDescription)")
}else {
for documents in (querySnapshot?.documents)! {
if let owner = documents.get("OWnerID") as? String {
print(owner)
}
}
I am trying to create a unique identifier for a document in a Firestore database. This id is a session ID that needs to be unique, locally generated and not loads of characters long (like the automatically generated one). I am trying to write code that checks to see if the document with that ID already exists. If it does not then set the SessionID, if it does exist then randomly generate another ID and perform the check again. This should loop continue until no document exists with that ID and then the session can initialize. The issue is that I can't put this in a while loop as Firebase connectivity cannot handle this. Does anyone have any suggestions, or another way to achieve the same thing? Thank you in advance.
func setsessionid () {
sessionid = randomAlphaNumericString(length: 6)
let docRef = self.db.collection("strokedata").document(self.sessionid!)
docRef.getDocument { (document, error) in
if let document = document, document.exists {
} else {
let currentsession = self.sessionid!
self.sessionID.text = "SESSION ID: \(currentsession)"
let user = Auth.auth().currentUser
if let user = user {
self.userid = user.uid
}
print("Document does not exist")
}
}
I am currently developing an iOS app with a google cloud firestore as a backend and I am using a few listeners to find out if data is updated and then pushing it to my device accordingly. I wrote this function that listens for a value if true or not and according to so will update an animation in my app. The trouble is I don't know if I wrote it properly and don't want to incur unnecessary reads from my database if I don't have to.
func dingAnimation() {
let identifier = tempDic![kBOUNDIDENTIFIER] as! String
if identifier != "" {
dingListener = reference(.attention).document(identifier).addSnapshotListener({ (snapshot, error) in
if error != nil {
SVProgressHUD.showError(withStatus: error!.localizedDescription)
return
}
guard let snapshot = snapshot else { return }
let data = snapshot.data() as! NSDictionary
for dat in data {
let currentId = FUser.currentId() as! String
let string = dat.key as! String
if string == currentId {
} else {
let value = dat.value as! Bool
self.shouldAnimate = value
self.animateImage()
}
}
})
}
}
This might help you.
From Firestore DOCS - Understand Cloud Firestore billing
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/pricing
Listening to query results
Cloud Firestore allows you to listen to the results of a query and get realtime updates when the query results change.
When you listen to the results of a query, you are charged for a read each time a document in the result set is added or updated. You are also charged for a read when a document is removed from the result set because the document has changed. (In contrast, when a document is deleted, you are not charged for a read.)
Also, if the listener is disconnected for more than 30 minutes (for example, if the user goes offline), you will be charged for reads as if you had issued a brand-new query.
I'm a relatively new Swift programmer and am using Firebase for the first time so please excuse any misunderstandings I may have and my lack of knowledge about terminology.
I am attempting to retrieve data about a user that is stored in a database (email and username).
The code successfully finds the userID in the database. The userID is then used in order to navigate into the directory containing the username and email. It stores those values in snapshot.
For some reason, when snapshot is printed, it shows the userID but the contents of the directory (username and password) are shown as <null>. I am certain that the directory I am attempting to access and retrieve data from exists and is not empty (it contains a username and email). I wantsnapshot to store the username and email, but printing shows that it is not doing so correctly and I cannot figure out why.
here is my code block:
func checkIfUserIsLoggedIn() {
if Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid == nil {
perform(#selector(handleLogout), with: nil, afterDelay: 0)
} else {
let uid = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid;
Database.database().reference().child("Users").child(uid!).observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapshot) in
print(snapshot)
if let dictionary = snapshot.value as?[String:AnyObject] {
self.userLabel.text = dictionary["name"] as? String
}
}, withCancel: nil)
}
}
and here is what is being printed to the console:
Snap (ywU56lTAUhRpl3csQGI8W8WmQRf1) <null>
Here is the database entry I am attempting to reach and log to snapshot:
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Thanks for reading, any help would be much appreciated!!
Your reference in Firebase is to "users", but you are using .child("Users") in your code. Make sure your lookup matches case to your node. I find it best to create a reference to that node and use it for writing to and reading from.
let usersRef = Database.Database().reference().child("users")
Snap (ywU56lTAUhRpl3csQGI8W8WmQRf1) <null> the portion in parenthesis refers to the end node of what you are trying to observe. In this case it refers to uid!.
if u want to get username or email then you make first the model class for
Example:-
class User: NSObject {
var name: String?
var email: String?
}
then user firebase methed observeSingleEvent
FIRDatabase.database().reference().child("user").child(uid).observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { (snapShot) in
if let dictionary = snapShot.value as? [String: Any]{
// self.navigationItem.title = dictionary["name"] as? String
let user = User()
user.setValuesForKeys(dictionary)
self.setUpNavigationBarWithUser(user: user)
}
})`
if it is not finding your asking values, you are asking wrong directory. check firebase db child name it must be exactly like in your code ("Users")